Graduate Certificate of Completion in Enterprise-wide Process & Performance Excellence

The Department of Statistical Science in collaboration with the Colleges of Science, Business, and Engineering offer this interdisciplinary certificate.

Enterprise-wide Process and Performance Excellence relies on Six Sigma principles and practices. Six Sigma can be regarded as a highly structured strategy for acquiring, assessing and applying customer, competitor, and enterprise intelligence for the purposes of achieving superior innovations in or design of products, processes, or systems. This certificate program is highly integrative and emphasizes the dominant tools and strategies employed in both innovation and design applications of Six Sigma. Program content is consistent with the generally acknowledged body of knowledge associated with highly coveted Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and addresses Six Sigma's DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) and DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) approaches to innovation and design in depth with other key program elements including Project Management and Lean Manufacturing / Lean Enterprise. Elective courses listed are intended to accommodate the applications and intersections of Six Sigma with business, engineering, and other environments.

Prerequisites

• Undergraduate and non-degree students must meet the minimum GPA admission requirement of 3.0 or higher in an undergraduate degree program to enroll in 500-level courses; undergraduates must also have senior standing
• Sufficient background in statistics as determined by the certificate coordinator, including successful completion of Stat 431 (formerly Stat 401) Statistical Analysis
• Admission to the University of Idaho
• All students must submit the Academic Certificate Declaration on page 2 of the Change of Curriculum form to the certificate coordinator for department chair approval. Students must contact the certificate coordinator to discuss background qualifications prior to starting the certificate.

Required Coursework:

• Bus 531  Design for Six Sigma and Lean Management (3 cr)
• Stat 446   Six Sigma Innovation (3 cr)
• Stat 507   Experimental Design (3 cr)

Plus one of the following (3 cr):

• Bus 414  Entrepreneurship (3 cr)
• Bus 456  Quality Management (3 cr)
• ME 583  Reliability of Engineering Systems (3 cr)

Note: Credits to total 12 for this Academic Certificate

Certificate Coordinator

Chris Williams, Professor & Chair

Students interested in employment in statistics per se should consider studying for an M.S. degree in Statistics.